The Centre exists to foster links between archaeology, biology, and environmental science, to enable the fully integrated study of the individual, population, and community ecology of past peoples. There is expertise in the following disciplines at York:

Viborg, Denmark: invertebrates from an early 11th century lakeside occupation site (for Viborg Museum)

Reviews of plant and invertebrate remains from the northern counties of England (for English Heritage)

Kaupang, Norway: assessment of plant, invertebrate and vertebrate material from the 2002 excavations (for University of Oslo)

Environment of Medieval Aberdeen: assessment and subsequent analysis of plant and invertebrate material from a wide range of excavations from the city (for Aberdeen Archaeological Unit, with funding from Heritage Lottery Fund).

Synthesis of evidence from plant and animal remains for environments and human activity in Anglo-Scandinavian York (for York Archaeological Trust, with funding from English Heritage).

The CHP reports
series puts on record preliminary results and data for work which may either
not be published formally or for which publication is distant at the time of
writing.

The residue of the former Environmental Archaeology
Unit was absorbed into the CHP in January 2003, bringing with it nearly
30 years of experience in the investigation of and reconstruction of all aspects
of the past human environment, with particular expertise in the study of urban
environments. Follow this link for a list of reports and publications by EAU staff to the end of 2002.